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...high school seniors who held their breath and tore open their envelopes this week, none received so much publicity as a certain former Ivory Soap baby. Brooke Shields has had one of the best-documented adolescences of the century, and her odyssey through the treacherous land of college admissions has been no exception. Last spring, People Magazine schemed to scoop her SAT scores. And this fall, as the coyly sized up the Ivy League, no passing reaction from Brooke or her indefatigable mother Teri escaped the headlines. Her decision that Princeton was the university probably boosted that select institution...
...surgery was fraught with danger. Years of cortisone therapy, DeVries pointed out, had made the fabric of Clark's heart so delicate that it tore "like tissue paper" during the operation. When the team, working to a recording of Ravel's Bolero, finally succeeded in replacing the organ with the mechanical device, said DeVries, "it was a spiritual experience for everyone in the room." But the new heart failed to pump properly, and a standby unit had to be substituted. Finally, after 7½ hr., Clark's heart output was normal, he had what was described...
...homes of his colonial subjects. To protect citizens from such intrusions by the new Federal Government, the Fourth Amendment specifically prohibits "unreasonable searches and seizures" by authorities and requires detailed warrants. In 1914, the Supreme Court concluded that officials were leaving the amendment in tatters as they routinely tore through privacy rights. The court unanimously ordered federal criminal trial judges to exclude evidence seized unconstitutionally...
...public. He proposed a "freeze on scheduled tax reductions effective Dec. 31, 1983," a move that would leave the July cut intact. To O'Neill, it appeared that Rostenkowski was pre-empting the Speaker's role as leadership spokesman. He called a meeting the next day and tore into his once loyal lieutenant. "You made me look like a fool, Dan!" O'Neill thundered...
...came home today, and I opened the door with my bare hands. And I said, 'Hey, who tore up all my wallpaper samples? Who ate all the grapes? The ones I was saving. ' And this guy was sitting there, and I said, 'Hey, pal! What's going on here?'And he had this smile, and when he smiled he had these big white teeth like luxury hotels on the Florida coastline. And when he closed his mouth it looked like a big scar. And I said to myself, 'Holy smokes-looks like some kind...